Word: monarchal
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...with the head of the Labor Party not to force an election on the issue of Parliamentary approval. Repeated warnings from the cabinet have failed to awe the King, and the London Times speaks guardedly of the creation of a Council of State, the machine which carries on a monarch's duties when for some reason he is unable to fulfill them. Edward is like a bull in a china shop, breaking traditions every time he moves, and it is clear that the ruling class wishes that someone else were King. In a visit to the slums of South Wales...
...Darius, seated in an ornate chair. Their figures are seven feet tall, the others lifesize. A petitioner, slightly bowed, holds his hand to his mouth "in a gesture of respect and appeal." One of the court officials appears to be a Food Taster, as he holds a napkin. The monarch and his son grasp twin-budded lotus blossoms, symbols of royalty. Their shoes are like those of present-day Iranians...
...most decisive way, place her moral stamp upon the English-speaking people of the world, and while in many cases the imposed morality was nothing more than a veneered hypocrisy, on the whole, the standards were high, and the British Empire attained its Golden Age under this noble monarch. I also lived under King Edward VII, and witnessed the expectancy of those who desired a looser morality. King Edward VII, although known as a wild Prince, nevertheless held to the high standards set by his illustrious mother, although he contributed nothing to the high morality of the British Isles. Since...
...commemorative coins at a price above face value. Congress authorized the first such issue in 1892 for the Columbian Exposition, provided for 100,000 coins to be minted for the 1937 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Celebration. The commemorative half dollar displays on one side a bear (Monarch II. Golden Gate Park grizzly), on the reverse side the bridge. Designer: Jacques Schnier...
...Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke & Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry and the Earl and Countess of Rosebery were invited to be with the King and Mrs. Simpson at Balmoral Castle. Its nine Scottish pipers who, headed by Major Henry Forsyth, are accustomed to march around the Monarch's dinner table nightly and render old Highland airs at 9:30, were ordered by Edward VIII last week to pipe for the benefit of his assembled guests St. Louis Blues whose lyric goes: "St. Louis woman with her diamond rings pulls that man around by her apron strings...